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Komodo Diving Cruise

This trip was critter crazy and kickstarted with a bang on the first night! We had a great night dive at the picturesque Satonda Island halfway to Komodo National Park. Stargazers, Ambon scorpionfish, seamoths, robust ghostpipefish, skeleton and mantis shrimps were out in force, along with a stealth squad of Indian Ocean lionfish that hunted hapless cardinalfish on the sandy seabed.

Moving on to Komodo, we were blessed with clear waters all week, and some really fishy dives at Batu Bolong, Castle, and Crystal Rock – a trio of the best dive sites in the park – with white-tip reef sharks, grey reef sharks, dogtooth tuna, along with schools of trevally and fusiliers. Still, the critters kept coming, and our guests got to photograph pygmy seahorses and ribbon eels one minute, followed by a passing shark the next!

In the south of Komodo National Park, ‘Manta Alley’ didn’t fail to deliver – we had chains of up to 7 mantas passing our dive group around the cleaning stations and through the alley.

This was followed with a dive on the stunning ‘Yellow Wall’ where we saw giant frogfish, clown frogfish, coleman shrimp, zebra crab, ornate ghostpipefish, and a plethora of different nudibranchs.

One of the many highlights of this trip was the night dive at ‘Bontoh’ on the volcanic island of Sangeang where we found some interactive coconut octopus, a teeny tiny juvenile bright yellow (unidentified) frogfish, seahorses, ornate and rough-snout ghostpipefish, along with many cute-as-a-button bobtail squids.

A personal highlight of this trip was all down to the eagle eyes of our dive guide Ketut on the last dive at ‘Sumbawa Wall’ where he found two incredibly rare, tiny pugheaded pipefish!

This trip was critter crazy and kickstarted with a bang on the first night! We had a great night dive at the picturesque Satonda Island halfway to Komodo National Park. Stargazers, Ambon scorpionfish, seamoths, robust ghostpipefish, skeleton and mantis shrimps …

Another trip with beautiful conditions – clear blue water and just enough current to bring all the good stuff in! The seamounts in North Komodo were packed with fish, and we found ourselves totally embedded in Surgeonfish, Snappers and Fusilliers …

Highlight this trip’s gotta be the Mantas in the south of the Komodo National Park. Famous for its cleaning stations, with any luck you’ll see these majestic rays lining up to get fixed by hundreds of cleaner fish. With good …